Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.
She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city.
We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you’re not.
Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.
I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.
You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind inward and makes it calm.
I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage – in every thought and deed.
I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?
Be yourself, no matter what they say.
You can’t break me because you didn’t make me.
You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it’s busy or quiet? You are not the mind.
I am that by which I know ‘I am’